Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
Turn-of-the-century automobile owners considered a magneto-less automobile useless. Full of praise were they for the inventor of the gadget which supplied the spark, which exploded the gas, which made their cars go. The Bosch Magneto was referred to as "heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate...
...Paris the Government, which has forbidden Frenchmen trying to fly across the ocean as a useless hazard, last week decided to "forgive" the Yellow Birdmen. But at Seville, Spain, two other Frenchmen, Captain Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou had to abandon their attempt to fly from Seville to New York. Spanish officials had locked the plane in its hangar, to please the French government...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
Shortcomings of the U. S. as an airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...